Spam free contact forms

I am not sure where to start on this. I am newish to
dreamweaver and have created a very basic site for my hobby which
does not make much money. I had on there a contact me button which
I later added a found of the net scramble code to try and block
spam.
This does not have seemed to worked.
I have found myself some free code for a contact me form with
captcha thing at the bottom. This is all and good, but within the
code is my email address for the bots to still find.
I have seen sites who host similar forms and have a database
where my email address would hide. However as my website is just a
display for my hobby, the cost of paying someone else to maintain
this is rather pointless.
My web hoster allows me access to a free SQL database and I
am led to believe that I can host this script and database on my
account with my web hoster.
Can anyone help with script/code or somewhere I can start to
look to set up this database and code on my own servers rather than
pay a third party to do it?
Thanks
Tracie

There is no need to go to these great lengths. A very
effective means to
stop any non-human 'spam bot' is available for you to use
called 'honeypot'.
You can find it discussed in these threads -
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?as_q=honeypot&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&scoring= d&lr=&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=2008&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=1&as_maxy= 2008&as_ugroup=macromedia.dreamweaver&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&safe=off
http://tinyurl.com/6plop6 (the
same as the above thread, only much shorter)
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>I am not sure where to start on this. I am newish to
dreamweaver and have
> created a very basic site for my hobby which does not
make much money. I
> had on
> there a contact me button which I later added a found of
the net scramble
> code
> to try and block spam.
>
> This does not have seemed to worked.
>
> I have found myself some free code for a contact me form
with captcha
> thing at
> the bottom. This is all and good, but within the code is
my email address
> for
> the bots to still find.
>
> I have seen sites who host similar forms and have a
database where my
> email
> address would hide. However as my website is just a
display for my hobby,
> the
> cost of paying someone else to maintain this is rather
pointless.
>
> My web hoster allows me access to a free SQL database
and I am led to
> believe
> that I can host this script and database on my account
with my web hoster.
>
> Can anyone help with script/code or somewhere I can
start to look to set
> up
> this database and code on my own servers rather than pay
a third party to
> do it?
>
> Thanks
> Tracie
>

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Having problems with spam on contact form

I typed this once only to have Adobe delete it so I could type it all again to submit it. So this will be the shorter version.
Basically I am getting spam from the contact form on a non business cataylst hosted page (hosted with bluehost). I have 35 other sites non muse made on other systems and in 8 years have never received one spam message. Now with Muse I get several a week only having been live a few months. So something is definitely going on. Adobe was zero help and basically told me they only can help if it was on Business cataylist.
Have you guys found any ways around this? I know wordpress sites have apps to add to help it, but I didn't know if Muse had anything like that or code that could be entered to help it. I'd love to avoid Captcha's if humanly possible because I think they look horrible on websites and I want as few barriers for customers as possible to submit true contacts.
Any thoughts is appreciated. Thanks

Please refer to the response from Zak to your similar post here - http://forums.adobe.com/message/6129694#6129694.
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Hi
I've set up a simple form-to-email page using ASP and CDONTS.
It works great but recently spambots (or whatever they're called)
have started submitting the form many times with junk in the
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one possibility, but I'd like to avoid going that far if
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Many thanks in advance
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I used Kim's free script available here:
http://www.geekministry.com/blog_article.php?id=40
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> Hi
>
> I've set up a simple form-to-email page using ASP and
CDONTS. It works
> great
> but recently spambots (or whatever they're called) have
started submitting
> the
> form many times with junk in the message field.
>
> Is there a good way to avoid this, short of displaying
randomised images
> and
> asking the user to type them in? (Which is one
possibility, but I'd like
> to
> avoid going that far if possible...)
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
> Square Eye
>

Contact form in muse without bc

Hello...i've a simple website, and i want to put in a contact form.
Is that possible without business catalyst? ( i don't know exactly what bc is doing...i thought hosting websites...but i have it already hosted)
I've found contact forms of 3rd parties, but i prefer a free contact form..
Does anybody have the same question or answer?
grt marcel

I've used www.jotform.com to create forms like this. It's free for modest usage volumes. It's also very easy to use. It generates html that you can paste into Muse. It will send any responses to the form to any email address(es) you specify.

Spam Email via MUSE Contact Form

I've been experiencing a high volume of spam via my MUSE contact form on one of my websites. I know that the captcha tool is available but only if I use the Business Catalyst hosting. Using BC hosting is not an option for this website. Do you have any suggestions or solutions?
-Ben

You can use the module {module_visitoripaddress} which displays the IP address of the visitor on pages ,with form you would need to insert an input field ( custom field )
<input type="hidden" name="BCNAMECODE" value="{module_visitoripaddress}">
In addition I would also suggest to enable harder captcha which will lower down the spam submission.
http://take.ms/V9isQ
Thanks,
Sanjit

Spam via non-existent contact form ???

The last couple of days I'm receiving increasing amounts of
spam emails
through the contact form of one of my websites. The contact
form is filled
in with random texts about gambling and the sender's address
is always fake.
I can see how a 'spam robot' would be able to fill in this
form and send it
to me.
But the strange thing is that yesterday, as an experiment, I
completely
deleted the page with the contact form from the site and the
same spam
emails still keep coming ?!?
The emails are still exactly formatted the way my server-side
process would
originally format them... I don't understand how this is
done.
Does anyone here have an idea how this is done and/or how to
prevent this?
Thanks in advance.
Regards, Marja

On 11 Aug 2006 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Marja de Vroed
wrote:
> The last couple of days I'm receiving increasing amounts
of spam
> emails through the contact form of one of my websites.
The contact
> form is filled in with random texts about gambling and
the sender's
> address is always fake.
>
> I can see how a 'spam robot' would be able to fill in
this form and
> send it to me.
> But the strange thing is that yesterday, as an
experiment, I
> completely deleted the page with the contact form from
the site and
> the same spam emails still keep coming ?!?
>
> The emails are still exactly formatted the way my
server-side
> process would originally format them... I don't
understand how this
> is done.
>
> Does anyone here have an idea how this is done and/or
how to prevent
> this?
Have you also deleted the script which processes the form?
They could
have set up a form or script which takes advantage of your
script. The
other possibility is latency - there were still some mails
waiting to
make their way through the system when you took the form
down.
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email:
http://makowiec.net/email.php

Making a Contact Forms Anti-Spam Work

I can't get this anti-spam .php code to work, Important Note: The coding worked before I added the anti-spam label/.php coding. Any obvious faults in the coding?
HTML:
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    <label>Email *</label>
    <input name="email" type="email" placeholder="Type Here">
    <label>Suggested Feedback *</label>
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<?php
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    $from = 'From: Contact Form';
    $to = '[email protected]';
    $subject = 'Site Feedback';
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<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$from = 'From: Contact Form';
$to = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'Site Feedback';
$body = "From: $name\n E-Mail: $email\n Message:\n $message";
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
if($_POST['human'] != 5) {
echo '<p>You answered the anti-spam question incorrectly! This means that your message has not been sent</p>';
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Php contact form spam

I published a website two weeks ago and in the first week the contact form started getting hit with spam. Here is an example of one of many similiar, note the email address is always different but yet a gmail acct:
Name: ã‚¯ãƒã‚¨ è²¡å¸ƒ å…¬å¼
Phone Number: ã‚¯ãƒã‚¨ è²¡å¸ƒ å…¬å¼
Email Address: [email protected]
Message: <a href="http://gagastore.meningitisfacts.com/">ã‚¬ãŒãƒŸãƒ©ãƒŽ æ™‚è¨ˆ äººæ°—</a>åˆç›´å–¶åº—ãŒã„ã‚ˆã„ã‚ˆOPENï¼ http://gagastore.meningitisfacts.com/
Today, I have set up filters on the email (GoDaddy) blocking anything with a "http://" and the "ã‚¬ãŒãƒŸãƒ©ãƒŽ æ™‚è¨ˆ äººæ°" markings.
I am trying ever which way not to use Captcha because it is such a pain. I did read up on the timer where if it is filled out in less then 5 seconds to discard. I did place a hidden field last week and to date that has made zero difference.
My question is - Is there a good latest and greatest code that I can update to my form to combat against these JERKS?
BTW - so far it appears they only start hitting the site's contact form from Friday til Saturday. Makes me wonder if it is a human rather than a bot.

jlkappler wrote:
I published a website two weeks ago and in the first week the contact form started getting hit with spam. Here is an example of one of many similiar, note the email address is always different but yet a gmail acct:
Name: ã‚¯ãƒã‚¨ è²¡å¸ƒ å…¬å¼
Phone Number: ã‚¯ãƒã‚¨ è²¡å¸ƒ å…¬å¼
Email Address: [email protected]
Message: <a href="http://gagastore.meningitisfacts.com/">ã‚¬ãŒãƒŸãƒ©ãƒŽ æ™‚è¨ˆ äººæ°—</a>åˆç›´å–¶åº—ãŒã„ã‚ˆã„ã‚ˆOPENï¼ http://gagastore.meningitisfacts.com/
Today, I have set up filters on the email (GoDaddy) blocking anything with a "http://" and the "ã‚¬ãŒãƒŸãƒ©ãƒŽ æ™‚è¨ˆ äººæ°" markings.
I am trying ever which way not to use Captcha because it is such a pain. I did read up on the timer where if it is filled out in less then 5 seconds to discard. I did place a hidden field last week and to date that has made zero difference.
My question is - Is there a good latest and greatest code that I can update to my form to combat against these JERKS?
BTW - so far it appears they only start hitting the site's contact form from Friday til Saturday. Makes me wonder if it is a human rather than a bot.
One way to test if it is human or bot is to return the contents of the 'honeypot' field in the mail too . (Once you establish if its human or a bot you can do something about it or not as the case may be). To me it looks like a bot and the honeypot field will contain information as well.

Why are Contact Forms being pounded with SPAM?

Is anyone else experience an unusually high volume of SPAM in thier contact forms?
I have two clients getting pounded with SPAM.
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The spam stopped once we applied the filters for the Comments and the Akismet is sitting there in the system now so they just need to fully role out the control into forms which will do a lot.
The Amazing thing with that which I need to check with the engineers that I thought is that BC is run by BC, so if they are using Akismet I want to check to see if they are pooling all the spam filters applied on all BC sites into one central database that ALL sites have access too. If they are doing this - SWEET, if not I am going to suggest they do.
THat would mean if your being spammed what you block will mean sites I build will not get those same spam and so on.
Making the captcha more secure agaisnt OCR will make them harder to use so there is negatives you got to weigh up.

Hi all, im a newbie and in need of help on contact form if anybody could help

hi everybody, im new to the site and relatively new to dreamweaver.
i have used a template for my website and edited all the relative information to tailor it to my business.
As i am not familiar with the contact forms i am struggling to find out how to make the form send the information to my email address as i have not got a clue if the contact form is coded correctly,
i would much appreciate any assistence given by any of you, as i am desperately in need of your expertice
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HTML forms don't do anything. You need a form-to-email processing script -- preferably one which conceals your e-mail address from harvesters and has built-in spam prevention.
Contact your web host and ask them if they have a script you can use. Hosts often provide scripts on their servers which you can activate through your Admin Panel or by directly referencing the script in your form's action attribute.
     <form action="path-to-form-on-server/form-to-email-script.php">
If your host doesn't provide scripts, ask them which server-side languages you can use (php, asp, asp.net, perl, coldfusion, etc...) so you can find a suitable script to use.
Related Links:
    Formm@ailer PHP script from DB Masters
    http://dbmasters.net/index.php?id=4
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    http://www.tectite.com/formmailpage.php
    Forms to Go from Bebosoft (script generating software)
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    Wufoo.com (on-line form service)
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MUSE CONTACT FORMS BEING HACKED!!!

I'm getting pretty tired of the reasons why adobe can't provide captcha or some other form of security on forms created in muse and hosted outside bc. There are several cheap third party form building solutions out there that can provide the functionality to create secure forms, are you saying that they are better than you?
Yes, I can build some pretty amazing sites with muse but I'm not interested in hosting with bc right now so what good are they and my monthly subscription to your service if my clients are only going to complain and threaten to fire me because their contact forms have been easily hacked by someone for god only knows what purpose. Every day now, I receive copies of hacked emails from client sites that I created in muse. Emails with strings of letters and numbers and two-way conversations some clowns seem to be having with each using these forms.
I'm sick and tired of this crap. If you can't provide me with a viable fix... I will have to consider other options non-adobe.

Zak Williamson (Adobe) wrote:
1. Limiting spam
What's the URL for a page with a form that's receiving spam? Have you verified SQL is installed and available on the server (by loading http://<thesitename.com>/scripts/form_check.php)? If SQL is available, the form code generated by Muse will limit the number of form submissions that will be accepted from a single IP address during a short period of time, which will deter some spammers.
2. Form solutions with CAPTCHA
As you've noted, there are many different form solutions available in the market that can, in general, very easily be integrated within a webpage on a Muse site via Object > Insert HTML (i.e. JotForms, WuFoo, Adobe Forms Central, CoffeeCup, Business Catalyst forms). Forms are a very deep area with entire large businesses devoted to providing rich forms solutions. Depending on your specific needs, the solutions available from these services will vary in cost from free to hundreds of dollars per month or more.
3. Cost of Business Catalyst
Hosting a website on Adobe Business Catalyst with support for forms created in Muse and 10 e-mail accounts requires a webBasics+ hosting plan. A webBasics+ plan costs $10.99/month with a one-year contract. If you would like to take advantage of the customer database and targeted e-mail marketing functionality within Business Catalyst that would require a webMarketing hosting plan, which is $16.99/month with a one-year contract. (One webBasics hosting plan is included with a Muse standalone subscription and 5 webBasics hosting plans are included with a Creative Cloud subscription. A webBasics plan includes support for Muse generated forms, but does not include any e-mail accounts.)
As for "What's the URL for a page with a form that's receiving spam? Have you verified SQL is installed and available on the server (by loading http://<thesitename.com>/scripts/form_check.php)? If SQL is available, the form code generated by Muse will limit the number of form submissions that will be accepted from a single IP address during a short period of time, which will deter some spammers." What exaclty is a "limit"? I cleaned 150 spam messages out yesterday and 79 out so far today. I have to do something soon because it's getting so bad that I can't stand to open the email for that course. And yes, I have green checkmarks on everything when I load the above-mentioned check for my website. I have forms central but began creating a form and realized that I cannot find an option to add captcha in the darned thing. I got keys for Goggle's Recaptcha, but can't for the life of me figure out how I'd add it to said Forms Central form . . . .
http://www.thornehills.com/scripts/form_check.php
Diagnostics
PHP version ok
mail configuration ok
SQL ok

Contact form for iweb?

Im just starting to play with the new iweb 08. The contact links are just simple mailto links. Is there a way to add a contact form? Mailto links tend to attract a lot of spam.
Thanks

I have used some of the forms from Form Logix...
http://www.formlogix.com/CreateWebForms.aspx
They have a wide variety and are very easy to use. The downside is that you are required to have their logo on them - to offset the cost of the free email service I guess.
This method of getting form information is a lot quicker than setting up your own form mail on a server. You can direct the replies to any email account on your Mac.

I, and my clients, want a VERY simple contact form hosting option...

There's no need for us to have data collected and analyzed. No need for yet another hosting service to store data we'll NEVER use.
I've already got a hosting service for my site. My clients already have hosting for their sites. None of us are willing to spend another
dime to have a second hosting system for anything. Don't care. Don't want it. LOVE the Muse forms and the ease with which I can
modify them to look the way I want them to, but that all adds up to jack squat if they don't work.
All we're looking for is a simple contact form that allows users to fill in a couple of form fields, add a little message and hit send.
My clients want to have at the most, about 5 different email addresses set up so they can keep the information organized a bit on their end.
They may get at most about 300-500 emails a month at a peak time of the year.
That's not too much to ask is it?
I mean, if I use the "Upload to FTP host" feature in Muse, what's so hard about adding a bit of code that uses that server space to pass along
a few messages to a mailbox?
Can't we just set up a BASIC contact form that is just creating an email and sending it to an email address with a preformatted message based
upon the form fields we add to the widget? Something like this:
Name: John Smith
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 555-555-5555
Message: You guys are a great little company, thanks for being so swell.
Dat be all we want yo! Hook us up mang!
For $15 dollars a month that I'm paying to use Muse, there oughta be something like that in the form widget panel! Dang!
Really have a bad taste in my mouth with this whole attempt to channel people into Business Catalyst... That might be great
for some of your customers, but odds are, not really... The majority of Muse users are likely to be designers that want to have
a bit more control over their clients image/brand, and want to have less painful ways of keeping up with the advancements in
webdesign/development without having to learn new code crap every few months!
So let's not be too greedy and accidentally paint some of your customers into a corner and try to get them to pay you more
money for services they don't need, and probably don't want.
I've recommended Muse to a few designer friends of mine, and their comments are all the same: Love Muse for the ease of
use in designing websites, hate the idea of Business Catalyst. "Feels like a ball and chain, but worse because I have to pay for it."
Yeah, time to rethink your plan a bit folks?
Simple Muse Form Widget. Get on it! It would be VERY nice of you to do so!

I do agree and have posted a few times on this. It would be nice not to be tied down with another hosting subscription. It would be better if instead of having to pay for BC hosting with different plan pricing they could have different pricing for Muse with different feature options. I would pay more for Muse to use the form feature freely on any server I choose because like you said the form widget is great for making really custom forms, but that ease of use should come at a cost because it is so sought after.
I am getting sick of people wanting everything for free just because it is there and they want it so badly but think they shouldn't have to pay for it because it is not in their budget.
Muse should have different tiers with different feature options and not force BC on users. BC is a great solution for people without hosting or users that are not familiar with setting up their own servers but for the ones that do have their own servers and are comfortable with using them feel tied down.

Why some contact forms doesn't work on some websites? We don't receive the submission form with the information?

Why some contact forms doesn't work on some websites? We don't receive the submission form with the information?

Hi Aish
I wanted to check the following, but the URL is not found, you have another one?
thanks
Nicole
4. Visit http://my-site.com/scripts/form_check.php in a web browser and make sure you see all green checkmarks. If some items do not display green checkmarks that means that the hosting server is not configured correctly to allow the Form widgets to send email messages to the address you've specified.
Contact your web-hosting provider about the server configuration problem. Describe the items that are not marked as green in the form check page, so that they can help you set up the servers to use the correct settings.
Il giorno 9-set-2014, alle ore 16:11, Aishvarya Raj Rastogi <[email protected]> ha scritto:
Why some contact forms doesn't work on some websites? We don't receive the submission form with the information?
created by Aishvarya Raj Rastogi in Help with using Adobe Muse CC - View the full discussion
Hi Nicole,
What is the "From" email address in your form?
Also, have you checked the spam folder?
Please check the following posts as well :
https://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-3581
Re: PHP mail may be disabled or incorrectly configured on the web server.
Regards,
Aish
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Need Help With Spam Proof Email Form

I am making a new web site using iWeb, .Mac, personal domain and forwarding from my commercial host. I want to make an email contact form that spammers cannot hijack and use to deluge use with spam. I have another web site that was created with Dreamweaver that contains a javascript form that I think that I can modify and use as an html snippet in iWeb.
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